Zakaria: Obama would be good for U.S. image abroad »
Posted by: expursuit 3 months agoFareed Zakaria is a preeminent foreign affairs analyst and hosts "Fareed Zakaria: GPS" on CNN Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. He spoke to CNN about how other countries might react if Barack Obama is elected president.
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hyperbola3 months ago
This is probably true. What really strikes me about this story is that it is another example of the provincialism of american corporate media. Why be so lazy and ask an american "talking head" about what foreigners think? Why not ask foreigners?
Americans really need to be exposed to MUCH more foreign media if we want to know what is going on in the world.
With regard to Obama, for those of you who can read spanish, here is a good site (Spain's biggest newspaper) where lots of foreign reaction and news is available. I enjoyed the report from the Spanish team that has been travelling with the Obama campaign.
Todo Sobre Barack Obama
http://www.elpais.com/todo-sobre/persona/Barack...
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tehranchik3 months ago
hyper---I did that just today. One of my foreign friends told me that if Obama wins--he and his wife and child, who are here with green cards, legally, will apply for citizenship. He said it will show him that the US really is the country that can fullfill promises to everyone. A very innocent hope...but that's the cynic in me. I'm afraid to have that hope.
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HannibalBarca3 months ago
Well tchik, there was an article a month or so back stating how positive your fair city was, and also with Obama and his positive views on a dismal situation, I believe your hope will come true.
But honestly, you need to support the Winterhawks and learn about hockey...lol
It does relieve tension
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Radiofreeeuropa3 months ago
Esto es un artÃculo de buenas noticias. Estoy alegre usted lo compartà con nosotros.
The occupied U.S. media can not be trusted on a story about Lindsey Lohan, let alone national or certainly international policy. Good post and good link from Hyperbola.
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donald513 months ago
Self righteous repugs don't want to know what the world thinks - like Dumya's lies to the UN that he respects the rights of all men - BS! Not in the conservative mindset!
Unilateralism, another failed policy of Dumya and the NEOCONS!
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Spadecaller3 months ago
JUst wait! When the media gets wind of the new church that Barack and Michele have joined, all hell is going to break lose!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yeAQ5JPWkM
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kboy3 months ago
US Image abroad is only how much money they can get out of us to support their pet projects and to do the peace keeping missions they do not have the will to do. Appeasement and sucking up never worked in the past no will it in the future. Almost every European has sold us out on critical issues when it gave them a financial profit at our expense.
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donald513 months ago
The brits offered 150,000 ground troops to go into Kosovo. The Brits, French and lots of Arab countries helped expel Sadam from Kuwait. Coalition of the willing supported Dumya to invade... but you just keep bad mouthing the rest of the world. Read "The Ugly American," by Lederer, you self righteous, inhumane individual!
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automan9093 months ago
I wonder if his new church is a mosque this time.
He can't seem to make his mind up on anything.
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Klarissa3 months ago
Yet, disturbingly, he made not a single passing reference, not a cursory tip of the hat, to the fact that graduates who seek jobs in commerce and industry -- manufacturing and transporting and selling the goods that fill our ports and rivers and highways, raw materials and finished products that make our lives longer and better and happier than those of half-naked savages huddled in some distant jungle hoping the panthers don't drag off the baby tonight -- are doing a "public service," as well.
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nikkibabe3 months ago
Fareed is 100% right. The country needs a new face, a new personality so the world looks at it differently. For too long, the country had whites with tunnel vision confined only to the country's borders and their religion.
Obama is multi racial, has lived in other parts like Indonesia, and is not about to copy failed policies of the past.
Forget personal experience. He can assemble the best of the best and deliver.
Look at what all the "experience" has done in the past 8 years. Nothing but disaster here and abroad.
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Locky123 months ago
You're so right! It only took Obama just 20 years to figure out he belonged to a church of hate. And he just dumped it last week. Better late than never!
He said his grandfather liberated Aushwitz when it was some other distant relative that liberated a lesser known camp. That just shows his "creative" side, I guess.
Also, Obama wants a bigger country. He already thinks we have 57 states. He's ahead of his time!
And Obama knows just how other countries don't like how we have our homes at a steady 72 degrees and our SUV's and how we should abandon that, for their example. Never mind the fact that that's what makes this country great.
The only thing that Barack Obama should be doing in the White House is mop the floor.
Being from Europe, you're the last person we'll ask who should run this country.
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simonsez3 months ago
"Obama is multi racial, has lived in other parts like Indonesia, and is not about to copy failed policies of the past".
You're right, he has his own full set of failed policies pending.
Free college for everyone; "Affordable" health care for everyone; higher taxes on investments, making public corporations spend their profits on what "he believes" they should spend it on; talk nice to our enemies, end the war unequivocally; what else does he want to do with our money?
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donald513 months ago
...read all that on Faux Fox Facts, the network of distortion and exageration?
How about "Bomb, bomb Iran" and Iraqi occupation for a 100 years which are stated facts/positions by a candidate that you obviously, unscrupulously support!
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simonsez3 months ago
He says all of those things in his spiel! You want to tell me how he intends to pay for it?
Government has already destroyed public schools. Now he wants to extend it to colleges. Can you imagine the turmoil if every high school student had a "right" to go to college?
You thought "no child left behind' was bad; this is no Tom, Dick or Harriet left behind.
I don't want to foot the bill for it.
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Klarissa3 months ago
Donald, before you comment from lack of knowledge, go read this.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/poverty/
This is Obama's own website.
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donald513 months ago
The best first step to winning the war on terror would have been the impeachment of Dumya and his turnover, with his cronies, to the World Court for crimes against humanity. Having failed this we can at least tell the world we are trying as a nation to get back to some sanity/humanity... and elect anyone other than another Republican!
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donald513 months ago
...there is no point in satisfying your question. My point is that Dumya has ruined any positive image we had overseas... which does impact the ideological war against terror (Dumya's words).
So, the only way to get back to the high moral ground that earned us world friendship and could win the war on terror is to disavow the evils perpetrated by the Bushies! Torture against Geneva, preemptive war against geneva, backing out of the Nuclear non-proliferation aggreement, Kyoto Protocals, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, throwing out 800 years of accepted western law (habeas corpus), eavesdropping without a warrant, the poor care of our veterans, the gross profits of big business at the expense of the common man (all supported and condoned by the Bushies/Repugs), a Supreme Court that has overturned more precedent than any previous....
How un-American and uncivilized we have become as a country under the Bushies and the Repugs who have supported them lock step for almost 8 years now!
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Klarissa3 months ago
Kenyans celebrate with 'Senator' beer as Obama clinches US candidacy
By JOSPHAT KASIRE,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-04 11:51:38
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Hoisting plastic cups of "Obama" beer and gathering around glowing television sets, Kenyans celebrated Wednesday as U.S. Senator Barack Obama laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination half a world away.
Some hoped for promises of more U.S. aid to Africa, while others simply wanted to bask in the glory of a successful black politician with Kenyan roots. And in this region of western Kenya, where the candidate is seen as a local son, Obama's Kenyan relatives described him as a great hope for both Kenya and the United States.
"It would be good if he becomes president of the United States," Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, told The Associated Press in her tribal language, Luo. "Barack could help build schools in Kenya, hospitals, help the orphans here. It would be a blessing."
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Klarissa3 months ago
The Democratic candidate was mostly raised by his American mother and her parents, and did not know his late Kenyan father well. But his presidential bid has sparked excitement here - and his most recent visit in 2006 attracted thousands. During the deadly violence following Kenya's presidential election in December, Obama appealed for peace on Kenyan radio.
"God willing, I would like Mr. Obama to be the first black African to be president of the United States," said William Ochieng, who was among a crowd of people in Kisumu toasting Obama with a brew called Senator Keg - nicknamed "Obama" beer since the U.S. senator's presidential campaign took off.
Ali Sadiq, 32, who manages a pub in Nairobi's sprawling Kibera shantytown, said he is confident that an Obama presidency would mean an end to poverty in Kenya.
"Kenya's poverty will end because Obama comes from this country. He will assist us in getting aid and also be a role model to the youth," he said.
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Klarissa3 months ago
At the Uncle Sam barbershop in Nairobi, Kamau Gichamba also said he has high hopes for Obama.
"I'm very happy about his win. He is a Kenyan!" said Gichamba, 37, as he cropped a customer's hair. "If Obama becomes president, the world will become a safer place. He will not stoke wars like (U.S. President George W.) Bush."
The praise comes despite the fact that Obama never lived in Africa - he was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas - and he barely knew his father, an economist from the western Kenyan village of Nyangoma-Kogelo.
Still, on Wednesday, his relatives could not contain their pride.
Said Obama, Obama's uncle, said the candidate has "high chances" of becoming the first black president of the United States.
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Klarissa3 months ago
Kenyan group vows to defend Obama from smears
Source: Reuters
Posted: 06/06/08 11:11AM
Filed Under: World
By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A group of young Kenyans supporting Barack Obama launched what they called a worldwide campaign on Friday to defend the likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee from smears by opponents.
Obama, whose late father was from Kenya, made history on Tuesday when he became the first African-American to win a U.S. major-party presidential nomination. The Illinois senator will face Republican John McCain at the general election in November.
Peter Mbae of Sen. Barack Obama Worldwide Supporters said the new network would organize online forums, public meetings and demonstrations to raise awareness of Obama's policies.
"We're going to march in all the major (Kenyan) towns, and then in all the African cities," he told reporters in Nairobi.
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Klarissa3 months ago
"Then we reach the whole world. It's very easy because it's a global village, and we can do things the technological way."
Kenyans have rejoiced in Obama's victories so far.
Many in the east African country adore him the way the Irish idolized former U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s -- as one of their own who succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Mbae's colleague, Mwangi Mukami, said they would counter what he described as a whispering campaign questioning Obama's politics, patriotism and religious beliefs that was started online by the senator's opponents but had even spread to some churches in Kenya.
"Being a self-made man from a very shaky beginning, Sen. Obama is an inspiration of hope to millions in the USA and the world," he said. "We want to ensure that what Sen. Obama stands for is not diluted by cheap propaganda."
The network was not funded by Obama's campaign, he said.
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Klarissa3 months ago
Many on the world's poorest continent hope an Obama victory in November would mean greater U.S. help in their plight. But some Kenyan commentators have counseled caution.
"Will he overcome the strong lobby groups that control American foreign policy and that have very little time for Africa?" the Daily Nation newspaper asked in an editorial.
"Kenyans, and Africans in general, can only pray that Obama's 'Change' agenda will sell."
(Editing by Matthew Tostevin)
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donald513 months ago
...continuous war justifies more power to the Unitary Executive that all the Repug nominees on the Supreme Court support... as long as their man is in the White House. All the abuses and secrecy of the Bushies here in the homeland just means the repugs wanted power overall. Iraq occupation just lets them justify more power abuse here!
The Repugs under Karl Rove have refined the Nixon template of evil and presidential supremacy beyond the rule of law !
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